Clair du Lune Print

Strongly influenced by modernist painting styles, my work blends Realism with intense, fauvist colour schemes. I apply oil paint to linen – raw or lightly tinted – in a texturising fashion, which creates an interplay of flat and protruding areas. Glazing and mixing media aid me in manipulating the paint to create matte and shiny surfaces. Using these techniques, my paintings aim to emphasize shapes, forms, and visual elements that initially appear to be part of the subject, but that, on closer inspection, start developing quasi-abstract qualities that bring out their thingness, the qualities that make them spectacles in their own right. Being based in London, my primary interest lies in the depiction of the individual and its psyche within the urban context. I am interested in ideas of contrast and change – locales can suddenly turn from places of joy to isolating spheres, depending on the time of day and the consciousness that is experiencing them.